Myth: One out of five police officers killed are killed with assault weapons1
Fact: This “study” included firearms not on the former Federal “assault weapons” list. Including various legal firearms2 inflated the statistics almost 100%.
Fact: Only 1% of police officers murdered were killed using “assault weapons”. They were twice as likely to be killed with their own handgun.3
Fact: One federal government study found zero “assault weapons” were used to kill cops.4
This is an excerpt from “Gun Facts” by Guy Smith, available free from http://www.gunfacts.info
- This claim was made by the anti-gun Violence Policy Center in their 2003 report titled “Officer Down” ↩
- The “study” included legal models of the SKS, Ruger Mini-14, and M1-Carbine, which were all in circulation before the federal “assault weapons” ban and which were excluded from the ban. ↩
- “Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted”, FBI, 1994 ↩
- U.S. Department of Justice, “Violent Encounters: A Study of Felonious Assaults on Our Nation’s Law Enforcement Officers”, August 2006 ↩
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